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United States Patent | 5,026,034 |
Russel ,   et al. | June 25, 1991 |
Apparatus for feeding and stacking sets of finished sheets in an electrostatographic copier or printer includes means for feeding a set of such sets one at a time onto the top of a stack of such sheets already in an output hopper, and an anti-dishevelment device for preventing the tearing, dishevelment and other damaging of the top sheet of the top set of the sets in the stack by contacting and holding down such top sheet during the feeding of a new set onto the top of the stack.
Inventors: | Russel; Steven M. (Pittsford, NY); Shea; Robert H. (Victor, NY) |
Assignee: | Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, NY) |
Appl. No.: | 368685 |
Filed: | June 19, 1989 |
Current U.S. Class: | 271/220; 271/211; 414/792.7 |
Intern'l Class: | B65H 039/00 |
Field of Search: | 270/52,53,58 271/207,220,211 414/788.1,791.6,792.7 |
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